Wenatchee, WA - Boomtown '06
Wenatchee hit the big time by ranking fairly high on Inc. Magazine's "Boomtown '06" list . Wenatchee ranked #57 and several other Washington towns also made the list. Bellingham ranked highest at #6, Olympia #30, Mt.Vernon/Anacortes #44, and the Tri-Cities area #79. Yuma, Arizona ranked #1 followed by St.George, Utah. Here is an excerpt from the article explaining how the list was compiled:
"To compile the rankings, Inc. measured current-year employment growth, as well as average annual job growth over the past three years and compared job growth in the first and second halves of the period comprising the past 10 years. The big difference this year is the number of communities surveyed. In years past, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which generates the job-growth data, surveyed 274 metropolitan statistical areas, or MSAs. This year, BLS surveyed 393--which has allowed us to paint a far more accurate picture of where the action really is. "
It certainly feels like a boomtown... guess this confirms it.
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